[But shouldn't he have done this BEFORE the media embarrassed him?]: NYC mayor tells his drivers not to idle
NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg told his drivers to stop letting his SUVs idle after The Associated Press reported it observed the vehicles with their engines running for long periods of time while parked throughout the city.Daily Kos: Gotta Be This or That...
Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser said Thursday that after learning of AP's findings reported the previous day, the mayor "made it clear" to the police detail that drives him around the city that the administration "should set a better example."
According to a whole lot of very smart people, climate change has changed from a trot to a canter to a gallop. We're told it won't be long until the changes are irreversible and then all we'll have to do is say goodbye to the grandchildren. On the other hand, we're also told by smart people that what we're seeing now is strictly in accord with cyclical changes, only a little more drastic than usual. This or that.WORLD Magazine | See you in September | Edward Lee Pitts | Jul 23, 09
Let's assume for the sake of argument that each side has equal facts and that there's an equal chance of either outcome happening. If we continue doing what we're doing and listen to folks like Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who denies the whole "liberal myth" of global warming, we might not get anything worse than a bad case of sunburn for a hundred or so years and then just hop in our air-conditioned Hummer and ride off into the Oklahoma sunset. On the other hand, if Senator Fossil is wrong, there won't be anything left but a few million tons of ashes where there used to be corn as high as an elephant's eye.
...House members are wary of going home having voted on mammoth healthcare changes only to get hammered by constituents in much the same way they did in July after passing a controversial climate change bill.
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if idling the engine is an eco-sin, isn't it also sinful to take longer routes? or to have too much load in your trunk? Every drop of gasoline matters!
What nobody seems to understand about 'conservation' is that it *knows no bounds* - The greens won't EVER be satisfied until cars are as exclusive and expensive as helicopters are today, until the only industry left is a green government bureaucracy watching over the wasted lives of the citizenry. Unless we say NO to them we're heading back to the middle ages, only the church is their new green ideology.
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